A Green Supply Chain

Get a Jump on your Green Supply Chain with Good Reverse Logistics

Small- to medium-sized businesses like yours often struggle to manage their own reverse logistics. Now that the supply chain is trending toward circular, it’s more important than ever to have a green reverse logistics plan.

Green Logistics is About More Than Recycling

You’re not going out of your way to dump more trash into landfills or increase your carbon footprint, but you only have so many hours in the day to change your practices.

You want to be able to brag about your green supply chain, but right now you can barely see over the stack of returns you have yet to process. Frankly, you may end up just tossing anything that can’t be immediately resold because you simply can’t spare the manpower to sort and deal with resellers.

Before you hit the dumpster, give Global Response 3PL a call

We’re passionate about fulfillment and logistics. Give us a chance to look at your operation and suggest the best ways to manage your reverse logistics and give you and your customers a truly green supply chain.

We can bring your entire returns process in-house and add value for you and your shoppers by:

Improving the speed of credits.

Even the greenest reverse logistics program is nothing if it takes a month to issue a credit to the customer.

There’s a point where speed overwhelms everything else, including the environment. With tools like smart labels, we can check that the products coming back are what they should be, know exactly when they’re due to show and have a plan in place to issue credits as soon as the item is checked back into inventory.

Finding more outlets for more reusable products.

You may have dealt with liquidators or had open box sales in the past, but those are just little drops in the bucket of places we have to send your products to get as much use out of them as possible.

For example, secondary overseas markets are fruitful places for products that are just a little bit out of date domestically or for fashion that was a flop last season.

Moving near-perfect items back into inventory fast.

When you’re running your own reverse logistics, it can be hard to find the time to move those almost perfect returns back into inventory.

This one just needs a price tag, that one could use a little stitch on the neckline, it’s not big stuff, but it can be hard to get to when everything else also needs attention. When items linger, they eventually get discarded out of frustration or because you held them so long they went out of style. Reverse logistics can fix small issues and put those products back into inventory fast to keep your business greener.

Minimizing the impacts of product disposal.

The goal, however, is to keep everything circulating as long as possible, which is what gives it a naturally green bent. Whatever can be recycled will be, saving you both disposal fees and the black eye that making overloading the local landfill will earn.

Customers love it when you’re environmentally friendly, but they also love it when you get their credits to them fast.

Partnering with Global Response 3PL means you can do both, saving your company money on disposal fees and giving you a chance to create a new income stream with secondary markets.